Hello!
Thanks for the help?...
I have solved the problem myself. I write this post in case of some
other DFLYBSD
newcomer has the same or a similar issue.
I downloaded the DragonFly-x86_64-LATEST-GUI.img file and I installed it
to a
USB key using the freeware for Windows Win32DiskImager. After that the
system
was loaded and I logged in as root and I typed "startx", the first thing
that I
did was to add this line to the file /etc/rc.conf (using ee, the line
command
editor, or mousepad, the GUI editor) to assign an IP to my machine
automatically
at the startup (this is good independently from the type of connection):
dhcp_enable="YES"
I searched the driver for my WiFi card (Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN
802.11n
PCI-E NIC) and/or my external WiFi device (usb/hotspot Huawei Mobile
WiFi E5776s-
32). I have a laptop Laptop Toshiba Satellite L555.11L). I didn't found the
specific or adaptable drivers. After I tried to use my WiFi device like
a USB
key and not a hotspot. I read somewhere that it is possible with ugensa
adding
this line to the file /boot/loader.conf:
ugensa_load="YES"
Not a real progress: it didn't work no more. Then I tried to convert my
Windows
drivers by ndisgen, the ndis utility for this task (see
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.
org/cgi/web-man?command=ndis§ion=4 or typing "man ndis" at a command
line ).
It's simple and fast to use, but it's necessary to download the DFLYBSD
sources
for the release because the .img file doesn't contain them. Because I
had not an
Internet connection working under DFLYBSD, I was obliged to download the
sources in a cybercafe to use a Ethernet connection that does not pose any
specific problems . After this I was able to convert the RTL8191SE firmware
without errors, but not the Huawei device driver. To load automatically
at startup the
RTL8191SE driver and the necessary ndis modules I added these lines to
/boot/loader.conf:
ndis_load="YES"
if_ndis_load="YES"
rtl8192se_sys_load="YES" ---> (the driver for RTL8191SE Wireless card)
and I tried some other (theoretically) useful tricks that I found here:
<http://www.
wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html> adapting to my necessities.
Nothing happened.
At long last I found the solution thank to the article "NETGEAR
Universal Wifi
Adapter (WNCE2001)" that I found here: <http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/
attachment1s/14938/original/BSD_11_2012_Run_FreeBSD_as_NAT_INSTANCE_in_Cloud.pdf?
1352285886>. The device is a Ethernet-WiFi-Ethernet adapter (here's the
manual: <
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WNCE2001/WNCE2001_UM_24Sep10.pdf
>).
It is useful to receive the WiFi signal from a router/hotspot if the
computer
has not a (recognized) WiFi card or USB key. It was experienced by the
article
author using two releases of GhostBSD and PCBSD. Now it's sure that it
runs also
with DFLYBSD, theoretically with any PC/Laptop having an Ethernet card
and with
an external WiFi hotspot. I buy it for 35 ?EUR (about 50 $). This is the
worst
thing using this method to connect DFLYBSD to a WiFi network.
Before to boot DFLYBSD I attached the device to the Ethernet port and
the USB
cable to power it (alternatively it's possible to use the power
adapter). Once
the system loaded, I verified that the Ethernet connection was active using
ifconfig at the command line:
dflyd# ifconfig -a
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
inet6 fe80::226:22ff:fefa:c258%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:26:22:fa:c2:58
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
The verification was positive and I launched Firefox, the default
browser of the
XFCE desktop. As DHCP was enabled, normally it must appear a window with
the
Netgear Smart Wizard. This didn't happen. Then I input into the URL bar the
address of the Netgear Wizard (advanced setting) page:
<http://www.mywifiext.com/start.htm>
(see here: <http://cjoint.com/14jv/DAbu5gU1WL3.htm>). And voilà! It was
done.
Now I am using DFLYBSD connected to the Internet and I am posting this
message.
Micman
